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Civil-Comp Proceedings
ISSN 1759-3433
CCP: 105
PROCEEDINGS OF THE NINTH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE ON ENGINEERING COMPUTATIONAL TECHNOLOGY
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Paper 42

Vulnerability Assessment of Concrete Bridges using Different Methods of Visual Inspection

M.L. Fadda, F. Mistretta and M.V. Piras

Department of Civil Environmental Engineering and Architecture, University of Cagliari, Italy

Full Bibliographic Reference for this paper
M.L. Fadda, F. Mistretta, M.V. Piras, "Vulnerability Assessment of Concrete Bridges using Different Methods of Visual Inspection", in , (Editors), "Proceedings of the Ninth International Conference on Engineering Computational Technology", Civil-Comp Press, Stirlingshire, UK, Paper 42, 2014. doi:10.4203/ccp.105.42
Keywords: bridge assessment, visual inspection, structural safety, vulnerability, reliability, condition rating.

Summary
This paper shows the comparisons between different methods of visual inspection used in European Countries. These methodologies are applied to the deck bridge located near Cagliari, along the SS 195 road to Capoterra. From a strategic point of view, this structure plays a key role ensuring a direct connection to different structures related to industrial and local productions and to an important touristic district. This is a prestressed concrete bridge in an aggressive marine environment, which in October 2008 was hit by a flood that caused subsidence in the foundations. The aim of our inspection is to obtain a real measure of the vulnerability through different procedures and to determine which is the best method able to give objective results.

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